A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the U.S. Space Force’s newest GPS III satellite, rolled out to Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Jan. 16, 2023, in ...

House lawmakers are seizing on a pair of U.S. Air Force space program delays to support the need to create a Space Corps—an idea strongly opposed by the Air Force and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. The ...

Congressional negotiators have rejected the House's plan to create a new "Space Corps" -- omitting the proposal for a new military branch under the umbrella of the Air Force from the final version of ...

"There are many people in the Pentagon who I think in large part agree with us. I've been particularly proud of Deputy Secretary of Defense Shanahan who seems to totally get it," said Rep. Jim Cooper, ...

The White House and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are speaking out against a congressional proposal to create a new "Space Corps" dedicated to fighting future wars outside the earth's atmosphere. The ...

Mattis warned the proposal would create a “narrower and even parochial approach” to space operations, in a letter Tuesday to Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, an Armed Services subcommittee chairman. “I do ...

As Congress debates the upcoming defense budget, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is taking a stance against mandatory defense budget caps and the effort to create a separate Space Corps. In a letter ...

For generations, the United States military has fought its wars on land, in the air and on the seas, from the Ardennes forest, to skies over Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. Now the Pentagon is ...